Evolutionary significance of epigenetic variation

Plant Genome Diversity Volume 1: Plant Genomes, their Residents, and their Evolutionary Dynamics

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 257-274

  Richards, Christina L ^a   Verhoeven, Koen J F ^b   Bossdorf, Oliver ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-7091-1130-7_16     Document Type: Chapter

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